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  • Star Wars Pit Droids – surprisingly educational puzzler

    Posted on June 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
    These pit droids are pretty mindless.  They can only follow instructions via tiles printed on the ground.  It’s your job to steer them in the right direction. Yup – it’s another algorithmic thinking puzzle in the guise of a game!  I had come to think […]

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  • Cargo Bot – introduction to algorithmic thinking.

    Posted on May 29, 2012 | No Comments
    Cargo Bot is a great little game that has generated some buzz because it was developed entirely on the iPad.  We’ll be looking into that development environment and how it might be useful for a kid to get introduced to programming later on.  For now, […]

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